Microsoft snipping tool is a small yet powerful application free of cost provided with Widnow7 and Vista that lets you capture the screen or a desired part of it with ease and versatility.
Screen capturing (capture anything on your PC screen with full screen or a part of it) has always been a cumbersome process for many. In fact, I need screen capturing many times in my routine life interaction with my PC. I need to capture screen for using in my presentations or anything that cannot be download as a picture can be done by just capturing the full or a part of the screen.
You may also find your own scenarios where you need to capture a part or full screen of your desktop screen.
Why do we need a different tool when we have Print Screen (Prt Scr) button on our keyboard?
Well, you are right. We already have a print screen button that do the same task but with some flaws!
IF you can sacrifice the quality of the captured image (captured part of your screen area) than go for it. You really don’t need any other tool!
Nevertheless, why should we sacrifice the quality? In fact, quality is everything and this is the situation where snipping tool jumps in.
There are 3 main drawbacks of using a print screen button:
1: We can not capture area of our interest with print screen. It just capture whole window or full screen.
2: After capturing we need another program like PowerPoint or Word to paste the captured image. And then we can save it as Jpeg or PNG etc.
3: Quality is always low for captured images.
I recently found this tool and I thought it is worthy to share it with my readers.
Snipping tool:
Snipping Tool is an application/software that is included in Windows 7, Windows Vista and you don’t need pay for this small yet powerful and handy application. It removes all the 3 draw backs of print screen button and capture images with excellent quality.
Where to find:
If you are using window 7 or vista, and your are unable to find it, just use powerful search button of windows 7 and search for “snipping tool” or peak into the start button and all programs list.
How to use:
Pretty simple and straight forward.
Open the Microsoft snipping tool provided in your window seven or Vista (if you are still using this awful Vista).
In the New tab, you are given 4 option:
i) Free form snip(Select area of your choice and any shape like rectangular, circular, free hand etc)
ii) Rectangular Snip (Select rectangular areas of your choice)
iii) Window snip (Capture the any window in full)
iv) Full screen Snip (Capture the Full Screen)
Choose anyone of the options of your choice from these and capture the area based on your selection. After capturing, you may also edit the image by using pen with different inks.
I hope this post would be helpful for you if , in case you didn’t already know about snipping tool.
Screen capturing (capture anything on your PC screen with full screen or a part of it) has always been a cumbersome process for many. In fact, I need screen capturing many times in my routine life interaction with my PC. I need to capture screen for using in my presentations or anything that cannot be download as a picture can be done by just capturing the full or a part of the screen.
You may also find your own scenarios where you need to capture a part or full screen of your desktop screen.
Why do we need a different tool when we have Print Screen (Prt Scr) button on our keyboard?
Well, you are right. We already have a print screen button that do the same task but with some flaws!
IF you can sacrifice the quality of the captured image (captured part of your screen area) than go for it. You really don’t need any other tool!
Nevertheless, why should we sacrifice the quality? In fact, quality is everything and this is the situation where snipping tool jumps in.
There are 3 main drawbacks of using a print screen button:
1: We can not capture area of our interest with print screen. It just capture whole window or full screen.
2: After capturing we need another program like PowerPoint or Word to paste the captured image. And then we can save it as Jpeg or PNG etc.
3: Quality is always low for captured images.
I recently found this tool and I thought it is worthy to share it with my readers.
Snipping tool:
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| Snipping tool in action. |
Snipping Tool is an application/software that is included in Windows 7, Windows Vista and you don’t need pay for this small yet powerful and handy application. It removes all the 3 draw backs of print screen button and capture images with excellent quality.
Where to find:
If you are using window 7 or vista, and your are unable to find it, just use powerful search button of windows 7 and search for “snipping tool” or peak into the start button and all programs list.
How to use:
Pretty simple and straight forward.
Open the Microsoft snipping tool provided in your window seven or Vista (if you are still using this awful Vista).
In the New tab, you are given 4 option:
i) Free form snip(Select area of your choice and any shape like rectangular, circular, free hand etc)
ii) Rectangular Snip (Select rectangular areas of your choice)
iii) Window snip (Capture the any window in full)
iv) Full screen Snip (Capture the Full Screen)
Choose anyone of the options of your choice from these and capture the area based on your selection. After capturing, you may also edit the image by using pen with different inks.
I hope this post would be helpful for you if , in case you didn’t already know about snipping tool.
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